Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-14
Fashion NOteS.

Fashion Notes.
 From the New York Sum-
 Gold lace is again in favor.
 Langtry bustles do not mash down; they mash up.
 Seersucker suits are selling at Ridley's for $6.5O and $7.
 Babies are given low-neckea and short sleeved frocks again this summer.
 Shirred null muslin bonnets come up among other summer millinery novelties.
 Knot stitch is pretty new embroidery for making rugs of canvas and Smyrna rug wools.
 It is a fancy to have the parasol used with hair-lined tailor-cut gowns also of hair lined silk.
 Amber beads and amber ornaments of clear tones make the most eesthetic of all accsssor- ies of white toilet.
 Brigh5 yellow is discovered to be rarely becoming color for the lining of & black dark brown, or dark green parasol. Many of the handsomest parasols of the season are all black and covered with hand run French lace, or Chantilly, black or white.
 White lawn froeks never go out of fash ion They are sold at very low prices this season, and come in vastly improved form and finish.
 The yoke blouse bodice, with full bishop or ieg of mutton sleeves, is frequently adopted for plaid zephyrs and other wash goods dress ! es this season.
 Field flowers in loose punches are the cor rect trimming for shirred null muslin bon net. A little fine open work embroidery and | lace are also permitted. | Ivory is now initiated in celluloid in a man l ner that deies detection, and piano keys of celluloid ivory are used by manufacturers in ! interference to elephant ivory. | RidleYs Fashion Magazine, summer num- l Der, is out in finer shape and material than ever. This excellent trade journal and shop ping guide, like good wine, improves with l age
 Celluloid amber ornaments initiate the real so we'll as to defy even experts, and, while l they are inexpensive, they are rarely beauti> 1 fu1add very becoming especially to clear ruddy l brunettes.
 White China and India silks make the | prettiest of all white summer frocks when l trimmed with profusion of Fedora or Val enciennes lace and made with much shir- ring and ample drapery. But there must be no hint of want of material in such l dresses
 Some of the prettlest parasols seen at Rid Iey's are semi transparent, being covered with ereuadine over which lace is stretched, or covered entirely with outings of lace. 9th CTS in mushroom shape have futed silk Things 1 in colors that take in the whole range of rain
 bow tints.
 Soft cloth hats are to be worn with trav- cling dresses and ulsters for tennis, boating, and for horseback riding in the country. are beautifully stitched and corded in the
 brims The only trimmings are cloth
 bands or straps Tapped in front with buckle
 Light white woolen veilings, albatrost
 cloths, and other wliite wools, boucle and
 bourette, corded and figured. effects in lines
 and bars, are made up into summer testlva frocks by the thousand in the custom ol ready-made suit departments and large
 dress manufacturing establishments of New
 York.
 Coral, ivory, tortoise shell, malachite, tur
 quoise, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and agate are initiated to such perfection in celluloid tha it is safe to say that more than half the orna
 n.ents, objects and fancy articles sold in thu
 retail stores of New York and other cities
 looking like those stones and productions, ,sr | really cellulold.
 Blue and white serge or cloth gowns art
 made by English tailors for yachting, whil from Paris we get gay striped and spotte
 woolens for yachting suits, but neither are a convenient, as pretty, picturesque and jaunt
 as the Tuxedo suit of knitted wool, which | suspected to be of American origin thoug ) invoiced French.
 A single fancy gilded chair, with cushion ]; of pale blue plush tied on with pale sati
 ribbons, 5rightens cottage parlor admirably no matter what the rest of the furnitur therein may be, but such chair must b
 regarded more as g decorative than usefu ! piece of furniture. However, there is posi-
 tive use as well as value in whatever is reall } | beautiful.
 Mrs. Crawshay of Cyfarthfa Castle, Wales at the last drawing room of the Queen i
 London wore very appropriately a costum making symphony in iron and steel gray with the entire front festooned with gra
 pearls strung on steel and alternating wit
 panels of steel tinsel net, fine as g cob
 web The train was of iron-gray brocade : trimmed with vandykes of pearl and stee net, and lined with steel-gray satin. Sh , looked the "Iron Queen" every inch. A pretty suggestion for costume of brideh pages at weddings is made in the Seasol ! of July, just out. Here it is: "Tights o 5 white or light gray silk, .puffed hose, an! doublet of heliotrope silk, full pleated l plain sleeves of the same, cap and belt 0 velvet to correspond in color. Cuffs ant collar of white cambric edged with lace l Chain of antique coins. Shoes of brow, leather, with heliotrope bows" This prett costume would be pretty in shades of blu | or rose pink and carnation or in pure whit l or cream, buff, or ecfu. = A pretty fancy in June brides dresses : | gown of white Como satin, with detacE t able train, the skirt covered with alternat 1 long draperies of tulle wrought with see [ pearls and Chantilly lace, the side panel 3 entirely of net of seed and pear-shape f pearls, the front of seed pearls on tulle t with long side jabots of Chantilly lace, th back drapery composition of lace an' Q pearl beaded tulle, the train and bodice ( - satin yelled with arrangements of tulle. UT der the train which is lined with white moirt T is puffed balayeuse also of moire. The ve 3 of tulle is attached with diamond pins and i. small pompon of orange blossoms, and a 8 the accessories of the toilet are of orana 8 flowers and diamonds.